SECRET
Sir,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
10th September, 1946.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your secret telegram No. 568 of 24th July, 1946, requesting
further information regarding the cost of the proposed
Indian Section of the Police Force.
2.
I attach a table setting out in detail an amended
estimate of the cost of the emoluments of this Section,
including rations and all allowances.
This table shows
all salaries at their maximum and the estimate is therefore
an outside one.
3.
The present revised estimate is higher than the
estimates contained in the schedule to the Chief Civil Affairs
Officer's confidential savingram No. 1366 of 8th January,
1946, and in my top secret telegram No. 432 of 25th June,
1946. In the first place the estimate contained in the
schedule to savingram No. 1366 only related to personal
emoluments calculated on a middle figure whereas the new
table is based on a maximum figure. It did not moreover
include rehabilitation and high cost of living allowances.
These allowances have now remained at the same level since
June, and I have included them at the current rate in the
attached table. While provision must be made for the present
for the payment of these allowances, they should be regarded
as temporary and as likely to be reduced when the cost of
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
GEORGE HALL, P.C., M.P.
RECEIVED 17 SEP 1946
€. O. REGY